Monochrome Madness:Close up

For this week’s challenge of Monochrome Madness, we were asked to go with the theme, “Close Up”

I did think of going with macros, and close ups of faces, but decided to take a different approach

I was bang in the centre of this crowd, and three times, I was squeezed by the stampede. I have mentioned earlier, that the third time this happened, I was ejected into a gutter, and was lucky I landed feet first.

But, if you want to get a feel of what a crowd looks like, look at the picture carefully. I had raised the camera above my head when I took this shot.

Oh… the Holi festival. This was not scary, as people were in a festive mood. But, 20 years back, I escaped a mob that was on the rampage because of some Hindu-Muslim stupidity. That, was scary. I was then stuck in my hotel room for two days, with nothing two eat but two small packets of biscuits